Week 4 (10-10 and 10-14)

October 10, 2011

• Students sort out buttons and look at different options in the sunroom while everyone arrives (to 2:45)
• Brainstorming food topics: (2:45 to 3:30)
  • Favorite snacks – ice cream, cake, cupcakes – what goes into them?
  • Can we figure out all the ingredients in a cookie, cake, ice cream, chocolate

Sugar – how is it made

• Sugar cane vs sugar beet and where in the world? http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html
• Good description of how things are made: http://sweetscam.com/how-its-made/
• Planting sugar cane (30 sec) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qFHWYkljc&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL4A2DC91A44788C44
• Growing sugar beets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjIU9Pw3OuQ
• Sugar Beet Processing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2n6_gqUCMs&feature=related
• Sugar packaging Imperial Sugar.mov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HI6i4T69FA

Check out different sugars

• Smell, color, texture, name, taste?, why different?

Get into groups (3 groups)

• See if you can figure out how to make something to do with sugar with a moving model…

October 14: Field trip to Whole Foods

-- produce
-- seafood
-- meat